my question for you is if you would comment on what impact you think it has on the u.s. supreme court that we essentially have a cookie-cutter court now. they are appellate judges promoted. no earls or bill douglass, robert jacksons. i can think of a republican who fits that mold, but i can't now. what impact does that have on the court? >> i'm very critical of it. it's not -- eight of the nine have been federal court appeal judges briefly. kagan had not been that. she was solicitor general to being on the supreme court. the cookie-cutters are troubling in other ways to me. they can claim to have a justice raised in new york, but there's two justices that grew up in mississippi, and one that was appointed west of the mississippi, and that's justice kennedy. look at the most recent justices and where they went to school. kagan, princeton and harvard. alito, princeton, john roberts went to harvard and then law school. i think that leads to my focus that is very troubling. also there's a narrow range of experience. few of the current justices spent significant amounts of ti